The Monuments Men could have been good, bad it wound up instead as flat and uninteresting. The main problem rests with the casting. George Clooney is charming, calm, composed, even-tempered, and witty as Frank Stokes, the main character and leader of a band of art experts. If that description sounds familiar it's because it's the same character Clooney plays in every movie he's ever been cast in. His acting is so one dimensional that the viewer never fears for him nor loses faith that he will succeed. That is precisely where the movie fails. There's little drama, no real conflict, and no tense moments, which is odd even though there are several deaths. The moods of fear and the terror of battlefield conflict are not conveyed even in the slightest. So, The Monuments Men plods along from beginning to end, mildly amusing but rarely more than that.
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